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Arthritis Care Launches Website for Inspire Magazine

On June 4, 2014 Niki wrote: Sharing this news to you all that I just read in this news article found hereĀ from Arthritis Care's newsroom. Arthritis Care launches new website for it's Inspire magazine. "Says Joel Budgen of Arthritis Care, 'We launched our Inspire magazine last year and the content has proved very popular with [...]

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Sign the Petition to Keep Facebook Free for Non-Profits

Your help is needed! Take a minute to sign this petition from Creaky Joints (https://www.facebook.com/creakyjoints) and share! On RA Chicks : Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis Facebook page alone we are now only reaching 1/3 to 1/4 of our members weekly. Sad :( To read & sign the petition to keep Facebook free for non-profits: http://chn.ge/1iBCdAk [...]

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Super Arthgold arthritis supplement product recalled

May 1, 2014 Niki wrote: Arthritis supplement recall info from Arthritis Foundation passing it along. "Arthritis Supplement Recalled Due to Undeclared Drug Ingredients FDA analysis found Super Arthgold is contaminated with several drugs that could cause adverse reactions, potentially fatal." Read the full article from Arthritis Today here: Arthritis Supplement Recalled Due to Undeclared Drug [...]

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April 21, 2014 Niki writes: Awhile back we had to close the forums on rachicks.com due to repetitive spam attacks. Even now we still receive over 300 spam comments from blogs entries or articles we must delete on a daily basis. I am saddened to announce now we have been hacked by someone that redirected [...]

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ra chicks chat member questions and discussions archival project for women with rheumatoid arthritis

June 26, 2013 Niki wrote: I wanted to share this great article from Arthritis at About.com to use when explaining the life complications of living with Rheumatoid Arthritis and other forms of Autoimmune Arthritis. I often get questions from members when sharing about one of our members passing on from complications of RA about what [...]

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January 9, 2013 Niki wrote: It's look like another athlete has Rheumatoid Arthritis. :( "The dual Olympian, 23, was diagnosed with the chronic condition in 2010 and requires weekly Methotrexate medication - also used to treat cancer patients. At its worst before treatment began, Bobridge was at times unable to open a soft-drink bottle, struggled [...]

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